Biathlon 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,145]

45 minutes ago, Near said:

Don't be silly, we don't want to remove the whole sport. We just want to get rid of the sprint

 

Just as a medal event at the Olympics, because getting medals for both the sprint and pursuit is totally ridiculous

 

 

[hckošice 14,835]

[Werloc 3,164]

I understand that this is Summer Biathlon and that basically no favourites are participating here apart from the A team of Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia and some others, but this 4th placement from Karol Dombrovski looks slightly promissing for the upcoming season

[dcro 10,210]

Summer biathlon has always been just some Eastern European competition

[hckošice 14,835]

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

Summer biathlon has always been just some Eastern European competition

 

so it´s even more valuable to see central european athletes winning medals

[Xander 53]

Ukrainians are competing here after hard trainings/physical stress so this championship is a part of the training plan and our adult team (and some girls) weren't supposed to show good results. And they weren't good even despite all the gold medals.

Pidhrushna said that she has no emotions after the victory and it's not valuable comparing to winter biathlon, no serious competitors except Kaisa so she's pretty sober about that.

Edited August 28, 2016 by Xander

[heywoodu 15,145]

7 hours ago, dcro said:

Summer biathlon has always been just some Eastern European competition

Bruna and Gabi are here to change that

[heywoodu 15,145]

6 hours ago, Xander said:

Ukrainians are competing here after hard trainings/physical stress so this championship is a part of the training plan and our adult team (and some girls) weren't supposed to show good results. And they weren't good even despite all the gold medals.

Pidhrushna said that she has no emotions after the victory and it's not valuable comparing to winter biathlon, no serious competitors except Kaisa so she's pretty sober about that.

That's sort of a sad reaction from Pidhrushna. Not very respectful to the competitors for who this is sort of a semi-big deal.

[dcro 10,210]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

That's sort of a sad reaction from Pidhrushna. Not very respectful to the competitors for who this is sort of a semi-big deal.

 

I don't think others are much too excited either. For example, I watched men's pursuit today and it's not like Otcenas was crazy happy with his win

[hckošice 14,835]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

I don't think others are much too excited either. For example, I watched men's pursuit today and it's not like Otcenas was crazy happy with his win

 

well, he just run 12.5km at full gaz. what you expected of him to jump 2 metres high